Re: Sensory and sensibility

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    On 21 Jan 2002, at 17:22, Dace wrote:

    > Matter is another word for mother. The earth is
    > traditionally regarded as feminine, while the sky is masculine. That
    > intelligent idea dominates helpless and random matter is sky-god thinking.

    That's btw an interesting thought, one of these mostly unconscious
    memes i'd say. Especially in my mother language where every
    noun is feminine/masculine or sexless

    tv is masculine
    radio is sexless
    stereo set is femine
    .....

    i wonder how this came into existence

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